diff --git a/components/motd.php b/components/motd.php
index bd3f822f43535adea4e293dd808df5da025f6a04..2c3eb66755f63d5624f4c710da226dfe304c5a05 100644
--- a/components/motd.php
+++ b/components/motd.php
@@ -3,16 +3,21 @@ $motd_file = "/etc/motd";
 
 function decode_entities($text, $quote_style = ENT_COMPAT)
 {
-    if (function_exists('html_entity_decode')) {
-        $text = html_entity_decode($text, $quote_style, 'ISO-8859-1'); // NOTE: UTF-8 does not work!
-    } else {
-        $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, $quote_style);
-        $trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl);
-        $text = strtr($text, $trans_tbl);
-    }
-    $text = preg_replace('~&ndash\;~i', '-', $text);
-    $text = preg_replace('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'chr(hexdec("\\1"))', $text);
-    $text = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'chr("\\1")', $text);
+    $text = html_entity_decode($text, $quote_style, 'ISO-8859-1'); // NOTE: UTF-8 does not work!
+    $text = preg_replace_callback('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~i',
+                    function ($matches) {
+                        foreach ($matches as $match) {
+                            return chr(hexdec($match));
+                       }
+                    },
+                    $text);
+    $text = preg_replace_callback('~&#([0-9]+);~',
+                    function ($matches) {
+                        foreach ($matches as $match) {
+                            return chr($match);
+                        }
+                    },
+                    $text);
     return $text;
 }
 
@@ -52,7 +57,12 @@ for ($i = count($news) - 1; $i > -1; $i--) {
     $body = str_replace("…", "...", $body);
     $body = str_replace("'", "'", $body);
 // remove hyperlinks, collect to display later
-    $body = preg_replace(":<a href=['\"](.+?)['\"].*?>(.*?)</a>:e", "'\\2['.linkcounter('\\1').']'", $body);
+    $body = preg_replace_callback(":<a href=['\"](.+?)['\"].*?>(.*?)</a>:",
+                function ($matches) {
+                        $i = linkcounter($matches[1]);
+                        return $matches[0]."[".$i."]";
+                },
+                $body);
     $body = strip_tags($body);
     $body = decode_entities($body);
     $body = wordwrap($body, 75, "\n    ", 1);
@@ -76,9 +86,11 @@ for ($i = count($news) - 1; $i > -1; $i--) {
 }
 $motd .= "---------------------------- [ http://sucs.org/ ] -----------------------------\n";
 
+//print($motd);
+
 //if (time()-filemtime($motd_file) < 86000  && $poemmode == 1) { //86000 to allow a little slack depending on when cron runs
 // print "MOTD too recent to replace with a poem!\n";
 //} else {
 file_put_contents($motd_file, $motd);
 //}
-?>
+?>
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